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hammered governor romney on his shape shifting. >> a few nights ago, suddenly a guy pretending to be mitt romney stood on a stage next to me and said he's changing his plan. he's just going to pretend it doesn't exist. what $5 trillion tax cut? what was being presented wasn't leadership. that's salesmanship. >> when the storm clouds clear, which romney will voters remember? the bone dry severe conservative or the misty massachusetts moderate? the paradox of the mittens, a multi volume extravaganza continues. john heilemann, what do we make, what do you specifically make, of this politico inside dope that says ann and tagg romney have been instrumental in this recalibrated mitt romney? >> i never want to take exception that anybody mike allen and jim vandehei write but maybe there's a straining to find a more biz zanty explanation than is necessarily the case. to question that ann romney was unhawpe with what was happening to her husband as any reasonable wife would be, given the way he was being portrayed and allowing people to portray himself. there's, you know, losing campaign, whi
hammered governor romney on his shape shifting. >> a few nights ago, suddenly a guy pretending to be mitt romney stood on a stage next to me and said he's changing his plan. he's just going to pretend it doesn't exist. what $5 trillion tax cut? what was being presented wasn't leadership. that's salesmanship. >> when the storm clouds clear, which romney will voters remember? the bone dry severe conservative or the misty massachusetts moderate? the paradox of the mittens, a multi...
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romney's campaign called him quote, an important surrogate for governor romney's pro-life and pro-family agenda. this incident highlights what the republican party confirmed last night would be part of their national platform, opposing abortion in all circumstances, including rape and incest. that's churned up waters in massachusetts, where republican congressman scott brown is calling for change in the party platform, saying i believe this is a mistake because it fails to recognize the views of pro-choice republicans like myself. finally, there could be one other high pressure system looking to rain on the republican party. vice president joe biden indicated he will be down in florida during the convention. perhaps unsurprisingly, the tampa mayor said this morning that he's prepared to cancel the rnc if necessary but at this point, it's unclear what's more threatening, the meteorological chaos or the storm brewing over the republican convention. that was a lot of weather, maggie haberman. >> lot of storm systems. >> setting aside the practical implications of a hurricane hitting tampa,
romney's campaign called him quote, an important surrogate for governor romney's pro-life and pro-family agenda. this incident highlights what the republican party confirmed last night would be part of their national platform, opposing abortion in all circumstances, including rape and incest. that's churned up waters in massachusetts, where republican congressman scott brown is calling for change in the party platform, saying i believe this is a mistake because it fails to recognize the views...
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the romney campaign insists it was only a finance event. what we may think of as a fund-rai fund-raiser, they call a finance event since no money was paid to attend. just like outsourcing is different than offshoring. and a tax may be different than a penalty. >> the governor believes that what we put in place in massachusetts was a penalty and he disagrees with the court's ruling that the mandate was a tax. >> but he agrees with the president that it is not and he believes that you shouldn't call the tax penalty a tax, you should call it a penalty or a fee or a fine? >> that's correct. but the president also needs to be held accountable for his hypocritical and contradictory statement. >> hypocritical and contradictory statements or stripping away the social safety net is going from an entitlement society to an opportunity -- to an opportunity society. the romney dictionary is growing, the definitions ever longer. i want to talk to you guys first about the spanish language ad. patricia, we know mitt romney has a problem with hispanics. we
the romney campaign insists it was only a finance event. what we may think of as a fund-rai fund-raiser, they call a finance event since no money was paid to attend. just like outsourcing is different than offshoring. and a tax may be different than a penalty. >> the governor believes that what we put in place in massachusetts was a penalty and he disagrees with the court's ruling that the mandate was a tax. >> but he agrees with the president that it is not and he believes that you...
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romney adviser kevin madden and the president of the human rights campaign. plus, as european leaders are voting themselves out, the night since the financial meltdown, look at france. lee gallagher will be joining us on that. see new 15 minutes. can befriendt may seem like the stuff of fairy tales. but if you take away the faces on the trees... take away the pixie dust. take away the singing animals, and the storybook narrator... [ man ] you're left with more electric trucks. more recycled...
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his wife mentioned it by name on tuesday, and romney's faith came up in several speeches last night. mike huckabee, a baptist minister who in the 2008 primary defeated romney in iowa didn't exactly offer support for romney's faith but said it wouldn't affect his vote. >> i care far less as to where mitt romney takes his family to church than i do about where he takes this country. >> huckabee also used a speech to tear town the president's views on social and religious issues. >> of the four people on the two tickets, the only self-professed evangelical is barack obama, and he supports changing the definition of marriage. believes that human right is disposable and expendable at any time in the womb, even beyond the womb. and he tells people of faith that they have to bow their knees to the god of government. >> romney is reportedly still tweaking his speech but is expected to address his mormon faith directly. the invocational prayer will be delivered by the president of the temple romney attends in boston. buzz feed writes about the 180 degree turn made in the campaign of opening a
his wife mentioned it by name on tuesday, and romney's faith came up in several speeches last night. mike huckabee, a baptist minister who in the 2008 primary defeated romney in iowa didn't exactly offer support for romney's faith but said it wouldn't affect his vote. >> i care far less as to where mitt romney takes his family to church than i do about where he takes this country. >> huckabee also used a speech to tear town the president's views on social and religious issues....
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governor romney had a good flight. i had a bad night. >> how bad? >> well, it's not the first time i've had a bad night, but i think what's important is that the fundamentals of what this race is about haven't changed. >> is it possible you handed him the election that night? >> no. >> you're going to win? >> yes. >> don't expect joe biden to make the same mistake. the campaign says the veep will come out forcefully against the romney/ryan record and address the quote dishonesties pedalled last week. offering advice for number two the president said -- >> tomorrow night? >> well, i -- you know, i think joe needs to be joe. >> for what it's worth, the president is probably hoping that joe isn't the same joe who occasionally suffers from bouts of acute honesty on a variety of topics like gay marriage. >> he got out a little bit over his skis, but out of generosity, spirit. >> joining us now from chicago, national press secretary for the obama campaign, ben "the thunder" labolt. >> new nickname every time. thanks for having me. >> thunder bolt or thund
governor romney had a good flight. i had a bad night. >> how bad? >> well, it's not the first time i've had a bad night, but i think what's important is that the fundamentals of what this race is about haven't changed. >> is it possible you handed him the election that night? >> no. >> you're going to win? >> yes. >> don't expect joe biden to make the same mistake. the campaign says the veep will come out forcefully against the romney/ryan record and...
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we talked about the benghazi stuff last night, mitt romney coming out and saying president is doubling down on deceit or some version thereof. your assessment. >> we should be clear about what is contested and what is agreed to and what are the various theories of what's wrong. what the problem is, right? what everyone agrees the first story that the american people were told by the administration about what happened in benghazi was wrong. it was not a riot set off by a youtube video that then overran a consulate. >> which they admit. >> everyone agrees. now the question is, did they just get bad intelligence, right? which is what joe biden said last night. this is what intelligence agencies told us. it turned out later it was a preplanned attack. were they essentially manipulating the story because it looked better for them if there was this who could have predicted riot as opposed to an al qaeda cell or al qaeda allied cell in libya pulled off an attack. that's one issue, right? what was channeled up through the chain of command in terms of intelligence reporting that administration
we talked about the benghazi stuff last night, mitt romney coming out and saying president is doubling down on deceit or some version thereof. your assessment. >> we should be clear about what is contested and what is agreed to and what are the various theories of what's wrong. what the problem is, right? what everyone agrees the first story that the american people were told by the administration about what happened in benghazi was wrong. it was not a riot set off by a youtube video that...
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to imagine this will play -- >> don't you think the leno stuff and -- and sam, you're a fan of late night television -- >> i am not. >> it reminds us how at ease the president is in is a number of formats. >> obviously mitt romney we agree is a bit stiff on the trail, so the contrast is apparent, and i think the ads are silly, but to the extent that it's different than '08, at this juncture, obama has real governs responsibilities. if you can say here's a guy going on jimmy fallon, and likes to talk about kanye west, and while the unemployment rate is still above 8%, you know, there might be -- might be able to tar him a bit. that's the only distinction between the mccain ad in 2008, when obama literally was a candidate celebrity with very little responsibility. >> that was about experience. they're trying to use this differently, whiches to say he's got this cool factor, but meanwhile, rural be off than four years ago? the point is there's ten different ways to say the economy is still in a bad place. they'll find 10 and 20 ways to say that. that's how you run against this president. >>
to imagine this will play -- >> don't you think the leno stuff and -- and sam, you're a fan of late night television -- >> i am not. >> it reminds us how at ease the president is in is a number of formats. >> obviously mitt romney we agree is a bit stiff on the trail, so the contrast is apparent, and i think the ads are silly, but to the extent that it's different than '08, at this juncture, obama has real governs responsibilities. if you can say here's a guy going on...
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. >> that is mitt romney speaking today on the heels of three wins last night. hogan gidley, you are the santorum campaign communications director. newt gingrich has said he's going to stay in this race largely to sort of help fashion a better more convincing conservative platform, probably for mitt romney. is rick santorum going to do the same? >> no, i mean look, we're still this to win it. we'd like for all the conservatives including newt gingrich to bow out of this race and get behind us obviously. polls show even last night with the percentage points that gingrich had, had he been out, we would have been able to beat romney in wisconsin. i want to go back to something romney said about all of his plans and he can't wait to get to washington. i'm terrified at that notion because he's caused so much damage in washington, d.c. and this country from boston. i don't know what he's talking about. remember last week, two weeks ago, we were debating before the supreme court the constitutionality of obama care. we wouldn't even have had those hearings had it not be
. >> that is mitt romney speaking today on the heels of three wins last night. hogan gidley, you are the santorum campaign communications director. newt gingrich has said he's going to stay in this race largely to sort of help fashion a better more convincing conservative platform, probably for mitt romney. is rick santorum going to do the same? >> no, i mean look, we're still this to win it. we'd like for all the conservatives including newt gingrich to bow out of this race and get...
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at a fund-raiser last night in north carolina, romney said, "i was at a coal mine yesterday. a group of miners, about 2,000 people gathered and one with tears in his eyes. i mean, really emotional. he said, i need you to save my job and help my family. i need you to save my job. and it hit me how big the responsibility is." coinciding with his new comprehension, team romney is embarking on a new strategy. politico writes, "romney spent nearly a year talking about how obama is a nice guy who just doesn't understand how the economy works because he has no private sector experience. but as a campaign grew more intense and the attacks more personal, romney dropped the idea that he has any admiration for obama and in its place is a description of obama as the purveyor of a campaign not worthy of the office." the retooled angry mitt romney version 2.0, asserted tuesday that president obama is running a campaign of division, hate, and anger. here's how the president responded to those accusations yesterday. >> we're going around the country talking about how do we put people back to
at a fund-raiser last night in north carolina, romney said, "i was at a coal mine yesterday. a group of miners, about 2,000 people gathered and one with tears in his eyes. i mean, really emotional. he said, i need you to save my job and help my family. i need you to save my job. and it hit me how big the responsibility is." coinciding with his new comprehension, team romney is embarking on a new strategy. politico writes, "romney spent nearly a year talking about how obama is a...
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he campaigned on many things that mitt romney will have a problem with. if you say let detroit go bank rupt, they are saying i'm the guy for manufacturing jobs. let's not just get out of hand here. this was a great night for scott walker and bad night for labor unions. the coalition has to be bigger than labor unions. they are very important, but if it's down to union households, there is no path for 2012. >> the democrat his a bad week. bad un. numbers and bill clinton himself said. they set expectations very high to win and it was a blow for the democrats. it may be short-lived, but -- >> worth noting about the message. he spoke saying we are no longer political opponents and more unites us than divides us. >> for sounds good. if i am consulting scott walker, you go for the jugular. you have been elected twice in 18 months and you have nothing to lose. nobody will unseat you. you are talking about a national narrative. even if you don't gain anything more, now is the time to get aggressive. he is talking about not the next election, but generations. wal
he campaigned on many things that mitt romney will have a problem with. if you say let detroit go bank rupt, they are saying i'm the guy for manufacturing jobs. let's not just get out of hand here. this was a great night for scott walker and bad night for labor unions. the coalition has to be bigger than labor unions. they are very important, but if it's down to union households, there is no path for 2012. >> the democrat his a bad week. bad un. numbers and bill clinton himself said. they...
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michigan's governor drives home a powerful message against mitt romney. and john lewis delivers a message on civil rights and voter fraud. the best of the rest from last night is next. [ female announcer ] want to spend less and retire with more? then don't get nickle and dimed by high cost investments and annoying account fees. at e-trade, our free easy-to-use online tools and experienced retirement specialists can help you build a personalized plan. and with our no annual fee iras and a wide range of low cost investments, you can execute the plan you want at a low cost. so meet with us, or go to etrade.com for a great retirement plan with low cost investments. ♪ >>> what i found fascinating, the most fascinating thing i found last week was when governor romney said that as president, he would take a jobs tour. well, with his support for outsourcing, it's going to have to be a foreign trip. >> that was vice president joe biden last night, boiling down the election as a choice between two vastly different sets of values. those who want to protect the am
michigan's governor drives home a powerful message against mitt romney. and john lewis delivers a message on civil rights and voter fraud. the best of the rest from last night is next. [ female announcer ] want to spend less and retire with more? then don't get nickle and dimed by high cost investments and annoying account fees. at e-trade, our free easy-to-use online tools and experienced retirement specialists can help you build a personalized plan. and with our no annual fee iras and a wide...
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they perform flawlessly night after night. i can't always say the same. >> that was president obama during a los angeles fund-raiser last night acknowledging that his debate performance didn't live up to hollywood standards. governor romney is trying to keep his debate act alive shedding his wooden image for a more human mitt. he told the emotional story of helping a young member of the mormon church who was dying of leukemia. >> through all this david had the kind of strength and courage and maturity you see in so many of our young people, so many of the people in this great nation of ours. i thought of the wonderful slogan later, clear eyes, full heart, can't lose. >> joining the panel now ar ari melver of the nation and nicholas cantasori of the new york times t. yes. >> that's who he is. >> let's talk about the strategy. the president, just forget about wednesday. think about friday. mitt romney forget about friday, remember wednesday. who is selling themselves better this week in your opinion? >> mitt romney is doing a gr
they perform flawlessly night after night. i can't always say the same. >> that was president obama during a los angeles fund-raiser last night acknowledging that his debate performance didn't live up to hollywood standards. governor romney is trying to keep his debate act alive shedding his wooden image for a more human mitt. he told the emotional story of helping a young member of the mormon church who was dying of leukemia. >> through all this david had the kind of strength and...
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we'll leave the zingers to the saturday night li"saturday nig t re-enactment and mitt romney. >> i have not said zinger and now i have. is that going to be enough for the american public? >> no. it's not actually. you know, all due respect to what's going on in chicago but the fundamental problem for the president is not just about the economy, it's the political system as it currently stands. and he has lots of specific plans, he had a jobs bill lined up, he's had these plans for some time. the question is, can anyone execute on anything within this environment? if the projections hold true and i'm sure ben in chicago and the president won't want to accept the projections but if they hold true, we'll end up with a congress that looks pretty much just as it does today, same president, dealing with the same dysfunctional congress, house controlled by the republicans and nothing will get done and in that environment, voters not uj reasonably will say well how does this get better? >> i think that politico yesterday, ben, outlined questions or statements that might haunt the president in t
we'll leave the zingers to the saturday night li"saturday nig t re-enactment and mitt romney. >> i have not said zinger and now i have. is that going to be enough for the american public? >> no. it's not actually. you know, all due respect to what's going on in chicago but the fundamental problem for the president is not just about the economy, it's the political system as it currently stands. and he has lots of specific plans, he had a jobs bill lined up, he's had these plans...
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mitt romney needs to have a good debate performance tomorrow night and newt gingrich needs to have a bad one, my money would be on the reverse. >> mark, i want to bring you in here, i know the media conference call that maggie just menti mentioned, are the romney people scared are they seeing the angry attack muffin looming in the background? >> reporter: they are not scared. but they go after the target that could threaten him. newt gingrich could win the primary. and romney stumbled in the last day. the debate will be key, how much advertising can get on tv will be key and to the extent that gingrich can win this fight with santorum about who should go forward to go against romney. he is a better fit for this state and it's the greater possibility that romney leaves here as the possiblity than santorum. >> when we think about the conservative vote, there a chance that santorum voters and gingrich voters will come anyway? are they attracted to two types of candidates? >> i think we have a split here. we have santorum saying i'm the conservative voter's candidate, but if you want to
mitt romney needs to have a good debate performance tomorrow night and newt gingrich needs to have a bad one, my money would be on the reverse. >> mark, i want to bring you in here, i know the media conference call that maggie just menti mentioned, are the romney people scared are they seeing the angry attack muffin looming in the background? >> reporter: they are not scared. but they go after the target that could threaten him. newt gingrich could win the primary. and romney...
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this is what newt gingrich said last night on cnn. >> they seem to have a overly methodical model where they go out and keep saying the same thing and it done -- the world's too fluid, too sophisticated for that, it's clearly something that you can go out and you can communicate and you can do dramatically better than romney's currently doing. >> lois, everybody in the republican party has advice for mitt romney ahead of the debate. rich lowry writes new yoo inven will save romney, it all comes down to him. what do you make of that? >> what it gets down to now, we have 40 days and can they turn around the narrative? it's looking less and less likely. obama people laid out a narrative he was out of touch that he was too rich, he was all of these things and then he played right into it with the 47% comment. and i think that's resonated with people. i've heard it from teen averages from venders, you know, people are remembering that and i don't know that he can turn it around because there's a migration of voters now. >> josh, when you look at health care stuff and romney's inability to se
this is what newt gingrich said last night on cnn. >> they seem to have a overly methodical model where they go out and keep saying the same thing and it done -- the world's too fluid, too sophisticated for that, it's clearly something that you can go out and you can communicate and you can do dramatically better than romney's currently doing. >> lois, everybody in the republican party has advice for mitt romney ahead of the debate. rich lowry writes new yoo inven will save romney,...
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who will go toe to toe with romney. then it turned into a nightmare the next day because the other guys wouldn't get out of way. then he needed perry out and gingrich out, and he needed guys like rush limbaugh to be like, listen, this is the moment. if we are ever going to stop mitt, it is now. instead, limbaugh was saying on his radio show, this will be fun to watch. this is kind after train wreck. >> ben is right. mitt needs to realize we are in the age of youtube when never can say, we can see what you said the night before, so don't repeat it. come up with a new line. and i'm looking forward to the new hampshire debates where i'm sure jon huntsman will roll out some kind of stone temple pilots reference to the granite state. >> no one will get it. >> i, myself, am looking forward to herman cain's unconventional statement. >>> thanks again to jonathan, steve, s.e. and ben. see you back here monday at noon eastern. until then, follow us on the twitter machine. >>> andrea mitchell report is next. hi, andrea. >> hi, ale
who will go toe to toe with romney. then it turned into a nightmare the next day because the other guys wouldn't get out of way. then he needed perry out and gingrich out, and he needed guys like rush limbaugh to be like, listen, this is the moment. if we are ever going to stop mitt, it is now. instead, limbaugh was saying on his radio show, this will be fun to watch. this is kind after train wreck. >> ben is right. mitt needs to realize we are in the age of youtube when never can say, we...
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say the discussion about foreign policy that's heated up considerably in the last couple weeks, and romney broadening his campaign message, talking about something other than the economy. in terms of tomorrow night's debate, what do you think is the net effect of bringing in issues that haven't been on the table like immigration, social concerns like gay marriage or women's reproductive rights? >> i think that you're probably going to see a similar tone, perhaps not a change in substance, but a similar tone from mitt romney to what i saw at the last debate, which was much more about bipartisanship, much more about his massachusetts tenure. on immigration, he has got a problem in the sense that he -- i mean, he took a stand right before the denver debate, finally answering the question about the temporary halting of deport -- right, of deportations for some immigrants who are here illegally. and that, i think, helped resolve an issue that was going to come up. i expect there will be more that comes up on it. in terms of the president, i think the feeling is those issues are in his favor. we
say the discussion about foreign policy that's heated up considerably in the last couple weeks, and romney broadening his campaign message, talking about something other than the economy. in terms of tomorrow night's debate, what do you think is the net effect of bringing in issues that haven't been on the table like immigration, social concerns like gay marriage or women's reproductive rights? >> i think that you're probably going to see a similar tone, perhaps not a change in substance,...
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the reverse is true for mitt romney where you are walking a line of not sounding like you're cheering for bad news. so i think that you're going to see both sides of this equation very much on display tomorrow night at hofstra. it is going to be whoever can sort of connect the most with the people who are -- the feel-your-pain moment is going to be very important tomorrow night. >> and i feel like the themes of disappointment and the sense that the american dream has not only been deferred but is, like, no longer accessible to a huge part of the population. >> you know, there's sort of this extraordinary shift that's taken place within the presentation of obama as a character between 2008 and now where in 2008 there was all this talk of hope and the constituencies that he appealed to, people who were hopeful about the world, young people obviously but growing economies in places like north carolina and colorado. now you have this strain that's always been there with obama with this discussion about his grandparents and, you know, the aircraft assembly line and all of that, that's sort
the reverse is true for mitt romney where you are walking a line of not sounding like you're cheering for bad news. so i think that you're going to see both sides of this equation very much on display tomorrow night at hofstra. it is going to be whoever can sort of connect the most with the people who are -- the feel-your-pain moment is going to be very important tomorrow night. >> and i feel like the themes of disappointment and the sense that the american dream has not only been...
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late last night in the cold. there is real enthusiasm on the ground. the best measure of enthusiasm right now is early vote. look at early vote in iowa, we are beating mitt romney two to one and some cases three to one. mitt romney has to win tomorrow's vote, just the election day vote, by upwards of 23 points just to tie us. so that's a really good measure of enthusiasm of people that are already coming out to the polls to vote for this president. and they're not mid term voters. these are sporadic voters coming out, that particularly you know that we've been working with over the course of the last two years of this campaign. i think that is the best measure of enthusiasm right now. >> stephanie, one more question before we have to let you go. the notion of voter fraud, we've discussed it a lot in this campaign cycle, do you think the fact that a lot of these states were sort of had their hand slapped, these republican held governor state houses in terms of putting in place laws that would disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters, do you think
late last night in the cold. there is real enthusiasm on the ground. the best measure of enthusiasm right now is early vote. look at early vote in iowa, we are beating mitt romney two to one and some cases three to one. mitt romney has to win tomorrow's vote, just the election day vote, by upwards of 23 points just to tie us. so that's a really good measure of enthusiasm of people that are already coming out to the polls to vote for this president. and they're not mid term voters. these are...